Author and Astrophysicist

The More You Know™

While I’m watching an artificial (but completely real and frightening) crisis unfold, I started thinking about another real and frightening crisis of our own making, and about the fact that many of the same people involved in the former crisis have an even less sensible position on the latter. So, just as a reminder, I’m going to make a brief public service announcement.

Of course, some elements of the Republican Party don’t put much stock in rational discourse, or in science, and that’s frightening too. Science works, and policy should be based on it. [↵]

Here’s another point that’s worth remembering: experts are worth our attention. These are intelligent, honest people who have spent their lives painstakingly researching this subject, and they have unfortunately come back with news so terrible that nobody wanted to hear it. [↵]